Looking for 67 automatic dip stick
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Thanks gtex. Your the best!
Originally Posted by gtex
i couldn't easily find a dipstick for my setup. I ended up getting a Lokar stainless braided dipstick from summit.. Nice part. Not cheap, at about $60.
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If it is a medium case COM it might work. Can you let me know if they are the same? Thanks
Originally Posted by bertha66
Will a dip stick work from a cruise-o-matic Galaxie work? I two automatic trucks and a Galaxie, I will look and see if they will interchange.
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The problem is the fitting that screws into the side of the pan, its sorta like a large diameter brake line flare fitting. These type of flares are designed to be used once and if you take them off and on a couple of times, they begin to leak. The Lokar dip stick requires you to continue to use the lower portion of your tube with the leaky fitting. You have to cut the tube and attach the Lokar upper portion to that lower original tube. The other problem with the Lokar unit is you have to guess at where to cut the tube, where the fluid level is read on the dip stick then depends on where you cut the original tube, and if the fitting into the pan is leaking, well you still got the leak.
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Originally Posted by DarkWolf40
The problem is the fitting that screws into the side of the pan, its sorta like a large diameter brake line flare fitting. These type of flares are designed to be used once and if you take them off and on a couple of times, they begin to leak. The Lokar dip stick requires you to continue to use the lower portion of your tube with the leaky fitting. You have to cut the tube and attach the Lokar upper portion to that lower original tube. The other problem with the Lokar unit is you have to guess at where to cut the tube, where the fluid level is read on the dip stick then depends on where you cut the original tube, and if the fitting into the pan is leaking, well you still got the leak.
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Originally Posted by elemint
So are you saying the lokar is not just a dipstick?
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Correct, the lockar unit is a kit, where you'll have to cut the present dipstick tube down about 3/4 of the way and attach thier outer tube which is a stainless braided flex tube. It looks real nice but you'll have to guess at where to cut your tube. Then you may not get it right and you won't know where the full fluid line should be on the dip stick. You can mount the Lokar unit on the fire wall for esiar access. If you just needing a dip stick, I'd suggest looking at junk yards. If your is like mine, the darn think may be leaking where the tube attaches to the pan, in which case I don't have a clue on how to fix that leak without a new tube with an unused flare fitting.
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I looked at my car trans and the truck trans and as far as I can tell they look the same, I did not pull them out of the trans, but looking at them they look the same. Customcab66, on the forums here is my son, I think he broke his tube on is 66 truck and used one for a car that I had.
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